Excerpt source:
Hogben, Lancelot F.R.S. Mathematics for the Million. New York: Norton and Company, 1940. p. 397.
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The heavily promoted Extreme Reunion took place this past Saturday night at the Northeast National Guard Armory in Philadelphia.
To call it a disappointment would be a start.
Things began from bad and went to worse. Sabu was rushed to the hospital after Trevose, PA Police were dispatched after the hotel manager where Sabu was staying said they felt he was “intoxicated” when paramedics were called. His room was checked Shane Douglas and others couldn’t get in touch with Sabu. TMZ.com reported that Sabu “had a bad reaction to a medication he’d been taking” (likely translation was either an accidental overdose of something he was taking).
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This week, some thoughts on WWE creating storylines that are not designed to get over its Face of the Company.
WWE Face of the Company John Cena put over Lord Tenzai, after Tenzai’s stooge Sakamoto and David Otunga in what seems like a glorified squash “Extreme Rules” match
Before I get a bad mark from Jim Ross (in a recent talk, circulated by Chris Cruise; he claimed Internet fans only want “the moment” and not the foreplay. Yes, Jim…we want to get kissed before we get…well, you know. We just wanted to get kissed where we’ll feel it, not on the back of our head where we won’t feel it and it makes little sense to do for the purposes intended. Well, Cena jobbing to Tenzai felt like getting kissed in the back of the head. All the kisser felt was hair and the person being kissed not much of anything.
Plenty of moments in pro wrestling prove to be genuine, bona fide head-scratchers. But that’s not always to say that these situations are poorly conceived, offensive or downright crazy. Sometimes it’s the art of the swerve that yields raised brows, double-takes and a healthy amount of laughter and profane exclamations.
Take, for example, the old “Death of the Bruise Brothers” angle from Memphis Wrestling way back in 1984. The whole bit started with an allegedly grief-stricken Jimmy Hart appearing in the television studio to advise Lance Russell that his infamous tag team The Bruise Brothers (a.k.a. The Dream Machine and Pork Chop Cash) were – as he put it – “no more.” Now, the Memphis fans were accustomed to all kinds of chicanery and deception from the much-maligned hart and his “First Family” and despite the fact that Jimmy laid it on thick, the studio audience wasn’t buying it…at first. But as time went on and Jimmy spoke at length about his tragic loss and rolled some news footage complete with an apparent funeral procession, many fans likely wondered if perhaps this time, Hart was telling the truth. Even Canadian Lumberjack Jos LeDuc made a cameo in a scene from the funeral home, musing about mortality and the like before summarily dismissing the camera crew from his presence.
Eventually, the truth came out and the whole plot turned into what is likely one of the funniest moments in the history of Memphis Wrestling. But for a second, there, The Mouth of The South had a lot of folks saying, “WTF?”
15 years ago this past week, the little promotion that couldn’t…did.
ECW Barely Legal took place, the one and only PPV ever held from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia on April 13, 1997. Here are some of the moments that led to that day.
Let’s start on May 14, 1993. I was ready to go to that first ECW show at this new arena, the Saturday that Eddie Gilbert and Tod Gordon scheduled their first show of Eastern Championship Wrestling in a nondescript looking bingo hall, located in a section of Philadelphia that former Strictly ECW head Tony Lewis then described as “West Hell”.
Even that requires some prelude.
What was then called Eastern Championship Wrestling started after Tod Gordon picked up the remains of Joel Goodhart’s Tri-State Wrestling Alliance in February 1992. The Tri-State Wrestling Alliance, best known for its classic series of Cactus Jack-Eddie Gilbert matches that permanently put hardcore wrestling on the map in Philadelphia, blew apart on the eve of Winter Challenge III, a show that would have been the promotion’s largest.
Excerpt source:
Lenin, V.I. “From the Destruction of the Old Social System To the Creation of the New.” Collected Works. 30. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1965. p. 518.
Combat Zone Wrestling returns to action as it presents the 11th annual Best of the Best on April 14th (7:30 pm) at the Flyers Skate Zone, 601 Laurel Oak Road in Voorhees, NJ.
Here are the 13 participants in Best of the Best
From the UK’s Fight Club Pro: MK McKinnan and Trent 7
From Combat Zone Wrestling: Alex Colon, AR Fox, Drake Younger, Chuck Taylor, Sami Callihan
From Osaka Pro Wrestling: Lince Dorado
From Dragon Gate USA and Absolute Intense Wrestling: Johnny Gargano
From Anarchy Championship Wrestling: ACH
From Pro Wrestling Guerrilla: Willie Mack
From Dragon Gate USA: Samuray Del Sol
Originally named to the tournament: UHAA Nation is out due to injury that may have him out as long as a ayear.
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East Coast Wrestling Association at the Greater Newark Boys & Girls Club in Newark, Delaware–Bandido Jr defeated Azrieal [10:20] … “The Handicapped Hero” Gregory Iron pinned Kyle Matthews [9:53] … Bobby Fish beat ECWA Mid-Atlantic Champion Kekoa The Flyin Hawaiian [12:16] by submission in a non-title match … ECWA Heavyweight Champion “The Greeknin God” Papadon pinned Anthony Nese [11:13] in a non-title match … ECWA Tag Champions The Midnight Sensations defeated Fusion-DS and The Flatliners in a Triple-Threat match [15:59], pinning The Flatliners to retain their titles … Bandido Jr pinned Gregory Iron [7:13] … Papadon defeated Bobby Fish [15:27] … Mr. Ooh La La won a Battle Royal [27:33], last eliminating ECWA owner Mike Tartaglia… Papadon pinned Bandido Jr [17:42] to win the 2012 ECWA Super 8 trophy. (04/07/12)
Newark,Delaware, April 7, 2012–”The Greek God” Papadon made East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA) history at the 16th annual ECWA Super 8 tournament tonight, pinning TNA star Anthony Nese, Bobby Fish, and Bandido Jr in one evening to become the first man to walk into – and win – the tournament as ECWA Heavyweight Champion.
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Since this is being put together before Wrestlemania, thought I’d go back to a column written in what was the most newsworthy week in professional wrestling history not involving Chris Benoit or Owen Hart….11 years ago this past week WWE purchased WCW after WCW’s TV contract was cancelled by Turner Broadcasting.
It wouldn’t be an overexaggeration to call this the most newsworthy week in the modern history of professional wrestling.
First, on March 19th, new Chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting Jamie Kellner ended 30 years of Turner-originated/sponsored professional wrestling with his canceling of Monday Nitro on TNT and Thunder on TBS.
Then, on March 20th, Fusient Media Ventures withdrew from negotiations to purchase WCW, due to Kellner’s decision to pull wrestling from TBS and TNT.
On March 21st, the Pro Wrestling Torch reported that the WWF was back in the hunt to purchase, and on March 22nd was the first outlet to break the story that WWF Entertainment has purchased WCW.
Slam! Wrestling Presents Rock vs Cena: Predictions from the stars
For months now, SLAM! Wrestling has been collecting predictions on what will happen in the main event of WrestleMania 28, The Rock taking on John Cena. We asked current WWE stars, past WWE stars, and the current stars of the indy world. Read on to find out what they think!
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